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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Potential added value of the CEDAW
  • 1. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Andrew Byrnes
  • 2. The United Nations Working Group on the Issue of Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice / Fareda Banda
  • 3. The CEDAW: a holistic approach to women's equality and freedom / Rikki Holtmaat
  • 4. The CEDAW as a legal framework for transnational discourses on gender stereotyping / Simone Cusack
  • 5. From the CEDAW to the American Convention: elucidation of women's right to a life's project and protection of maternal identity within Inter-American human rights jurisprudence / Cecilia M. Bailliet
  • 6. Pulling apart? Treatment of pluralism in the CEDAW and the Maputo Protocol / Celestine Nyamu Musembi
  • pt. II Actual added value of the CEDAW: socio-economic rights
  • 7. Engendering socio-economic rights / Sandra Fredman
  • 8. `Women's rights are human rights!': the practice of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights / Fleur Van Leeuwen
  • 9. Property and security: articulating women's rights to their homes / Ingunn Ikdahl
  • 10. Maternal mortality and women's right to health / Henriette Sinding Aasen
  • pt. III The CEDAW in national law
  • 11. The implementation of the CEDAW in Australia: success, trials, tribulations and continuing struggle / Andrew Byrnes
  • 12. The Canadian experience with the CEDAW: all women's rights are human rights
  • a case of treaties synergy / Lucie Lamarche
  • 13. India's CEDAW story / Madhu Mehra
  • 14. Judicial education on the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women in Nepal / Kabita Pandey
  • 15. From ratification to implementation: `domesticating' the CEDAW in state, government and society. A case study of Pakistan / Shaheen Sardar Ali
  • 16. Zimbabwe and CEDAW compliance: pursuing women's equality in fits and starts / Julie Stewart
  • 17. The CEDAW after all these years: firmly rooted in Dutch clay? / Marjolein Van Den Brink
  • 18. The CEDAW in the UK / Sandra Fredman
  • 19. Domestication of the CEDAW in France: from paradoxes to ambivalences and back again / Andrea Hamann
  • 20. Rise and fall of the CEDAW in Finland: time to reclaim its impetus / Merja Pentikainen
  • 21. Making space and giving voice: the CEDAW in Norwegian law / Anne Hellum.